Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-25
A fine rain OH Monday.

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Mrs. j. III. Bartlett. of Fargo, visited
friends in this place last week.
W. ID. Wear is spendinga few days
visiting friends at Clinton this state.
DO not have anything to do with the
trade dollar for you cannot get rid OF
it at any price.
Rev. \. III. Ross and Geo. u. NOor-
heis. of Port Huron, were i'll the vii
lage OH Friday last.
Another Uncle Toms Cabin Troupe
will appear under canvass in our village
this (Thursday) evening.
j. ). Dufiie, wife and two children.
Mert and Lulu, visited the family of
DR.. G. 5. Ney on Friday last.
Thos. Rapley has sold his livery bust
ness to White 4 Dagg who will con-
duct the same in the old stand.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. +. Smith and Mrs.
Sarah Mcdonald. of Peck. are visiting
friends and relatives at Cheboygan.
IT. III. Holden and a friend from
over Sunday. They made the trip on
their wheels.
Mrs. David II. Brown, of Deckerville.
has been visiting with James Brown
and family and other friends in the viii
lage the past week.
Mrs. Geo. NJ. Granger and daughter,
of Memphis, were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. f. Evans and other
friends in this place over Sunday.
CT. Michaels will give another ball
on Thursday, Sept. 29, the evening of
the second day of the fair The best
of music will be in attendance and a
fine time may be expected.
Jas. Ferguson returned from his
western trip last Thursday evening.
lie is delighted with California and the
other western states and territories he
visited. and claims that if a man wants
to make money there is where he
should go.
We wish to remind Brockway Centre
business firms that there is no necessity
whatever for going away from home to
secure job printing. We can give You
satisfaction i'm either the quality of the
work or the prices for the same. Try
the EXPOsIToR before going, at least.
MAKE your home the brightest place
on earth. if you would charm your chill /
dren to the higher path of virtue and
rectitude and religion. DO not always
turn the blinds the wrong way. Let
the light. which puts gold on the gent
ian and spots the pansy, pour into your
dwellings. Do not exact the little feet
to keep step to dead march"
\ serious accident happened Antho-
ny O'Malley of Speaker while in town
Tuesday by his team running away
and throwing him out cutting his head
and face badly. The horses became
frightened ut the noise of :. q. Welch
& Sons mill whistle and ran west To
Church's hotel where they turned and
took the row of hitching posts along in
front of the hotel demolishing the wag-
on. The team then ran into the yard
at the hotel and were stopped
as compared with those made of wood
neither shrinking. swelling. cracking or
warping The door is made of two
thick paper boards. stamped and mod
led into panels, glued together with
glue and potash and pressed together
by running through heavy rollers. Aft
er being covered with waterproof coat
ing then with that is iire-proof. it is
painted. vanished and hung in the
usual way.
\ dangerous counterfeit of the silver
dollar which has recently made its APP
pearance, is made of ground glass. com
bined with tin, lead and other metals
Experienced bank tellers aver that they
cannot easily detect the spurious coin.
The glass dollar, however is brittle. and
if heldIin the palm of the hand and tap
ped vigorously with n knife handle it
will split eaisly. The new counterfeit
has the metallic ring of the genuine
dollar, and the correct size and nearly
the exact weight.
While in Port Huron last week we
called into the elegant double store of
Cohn Bros. next door To the Bee Hive.
and found these gentlemen nicely loca-
ted with as fine stock of dry goods,
notions, boots and shoes as you will
find i'm the city. Since locating i'm Port
Huron they have done splendid busi-
ness with prospects of large increase
of trade. Should any of our readers
visit Port Huron don't fail to call at
the Boston Store where you will receive
courteous treatment and square dealing.
In the case of the people VS.. Emerson
GrOat, of Memphis, charged by COburn
Il Son with stealing goods from their
store, the jury disagreed. The defense
was willing to plead guilty to taking
goods to the amount of less than S2o.
but the plea would not be accepted.
Eleven of the jury were of the opinion
that If CrOat was willing to plead gull
ty to taking goods to the above
amount, he took more, hence the dis
agreement. The case will be tried
again. James Rath and Frank Robin
son of this place attended as witnesses
having purchased goods Of Mr.. Groat.
During the past week the buildings
on the old Foster property have been
torn down and Iow workmen are bust
ly engaged making the excavation for
the cellars under DIG. Williams and
John SextOn's buildings. Jas. Wallace
has decided not to build at present.
The contract for the brick and stone
work OH the two buildings now in
course of erection has been let to Wm.
Blackford, who has secured force of
men and will push the work. Both
will be one story. Mr.. Williams will
be 24x75 feet with a cellar under the
whole and Nh. Sections will be 20x3G IT
with cellar.
An Iowa editor is now in the woods
lie attended cattle sale and concert
the same day, and his report of the con-
cert was "variegated" as follows: "The
concert given last night by sixteen of